0 present participle of joke --
1 to say funny things: --
She wasn't joking (= she was serious) when she said she was going to move out of the house.
I thought he was joking when he said Helen was pregnant, but she really is.
[ + speech ] "I didn't expect to be out so soon", he joked, after spending nine months in hospital.
It's more serious than you think, so please don't joke about it.
Too many ties had been forged- educational, occupational, marital-with villagers within the district to permit such joking.
They became relaxed and playful, joking with each other and harmlessly teasing the birds.
Men, on the other hand, utilize the genres of 'visiting', 'joking', and 'telling stories', but do not 'gossip', at these same public events.
When committing scale errors, children appear to be completely serious, with no indication of pretense or joking.
Joking and joke making constituted the most common form of defence and social control.
Officers had to share uniforms, those left behind joking that they had to stay in bed until their trousers were returned.
No doubt the narrator is joking with mock-grandiosity about the possibility of the cook's hair showing up on his dinner plate.
In the case of carework, joking was largely used as a means of easing situations that were otherwise embarrassing.
